Harvard Cracks DNA Storage

[macmanhigh]

Finally Fathers can have sumthing to look forward to.....No longer will Kids be disappointments they F' up and u can format them for Pron storage

Well that raises a question of morality.
Is it pedophilia if you store your porn in your pre-teen child's DNA?

Whoa nah Budd i means as teenagers........meaning they dont amount to productive members of society (Whutever that means)......

 

[jalaneme]

it's fascinating and yet at the same time scary, just imagine what would happen if this kind of technology goes into the wrong hands, like bio terrorism, terrorists can use viruses to infect peoples dna like how viruses attack windows but imagine windows being your body, also there is a high possibility that scientists could build androids from this technology, they could create artificial life and make it look biologic, who knows soon you won't be able to tell who is a android and who is human.

just some deep thought, heh

but the possibilities of storing everything you have on your pc in 1 small flash drive would be out of this world, look at how small flash drives have got and you can store up to 40gb of data on them, back in the early 90s you could only store like 56kb maximum, technology has moved so fast.

 

[mrtofu]

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[Maxternal]

It's a medical miracle, Avast and Symantec start producing antivirus pills.

 

[Hanafuda]

This thread has me thinking of this horrible old Keanu Reeves sci-fi movie (had Ice-T in it too) called Johnny Mnemonic.

What I'm not understanding though about the significance of this ... is the storage medium some sort of synthetic substance containing synthetic (non-bio) DNA? Otherwise how could it last "for hundreds of thousands of years in a box in your garage?" If the answer is yes, then I guess I'm more impressed by the idea that we can make synthetic DNA than by the amount of data it can store.

 

[KingVamp]

Well that raises a question of morality.
Is it pedophilia if you store your porn in your pre-teen child's DNA?

For a minute there I thought you where going to miss the heart of the problem by mention if it morality
right to even use living things as storage, but you didn't beat around the bush.

 

[FireGrey]

Will it be faster than a HDD though?

 

[nryn99]

soooo...how do i transfer data to a friend?

 

[Nebz]

All of my pr0nz on one drive... a man can only dream :-|

 

[Searinox]

I'm not surprised. A WHOLE GRAM of DNA?! That's a lot. DNA is so small that you can almost see the molecules that make it up so it's quite close to atomic scale. To put so much stuff at that scale that it actually manages to weigh a whole gram means there's quite a lot of DNA in there, waaaaaaaaaaay more than any living thing has. Consider that extremely few cells(DNA, nucleus, and everything in it) weigh as much as a gram in the first place. Stable huh? I wonder in what fluid, cause in the open DNA decays within days after the death of its cell.

 

[macmanhigh]

soooo...how do i transfer data to a friend?

By becoming Blood Brothers maybe ???

 

[nando]

soooo...how do i transfer data to a friend?

By becoming Blood Brothers maybe ???

good thing you responded first. i had something else in mind, i would of totally embarrassed myself

 

[Psionic Roshambo]

soooo...how do i transfer data to a friend?

That movie "There's Something About Mary" has a proof of concept... lol

 

[macmanhigh]

soooo...how do i transfer data to a friend?

By becoming Blood Brothers maybe ???

good thing you responded first. i had something else in mind, i would of totally embarrassed myself

Either that or get ready to share sum Tongue for that new TF2 Update

 

[nryn99]

That movie "There's Something About Mary" has a proof of concept... lol

sorry i didn't watch that.

soooo...how do i transfer data to a friend?

By becoming Blood Brothers maybe ???

good thing you responded first. i had something else in mind, i would of totally embarrassed myself

Either that or get ready to share sum Tongue for that new TF2 Update

 

[FAST6191]

I wonder if we'll ever reach a point where we have too much storage. So much room for information but not enough relevant information to store.

Also I can't wait for 5TB microsd's

As it stands there is already a push in science education towards teaching people to analyse data "properly"* rather than just create it. As for too much space... I will take a full clock by clock trace of some RAM in a multi GHz machine rather than mess around and hope my storage oscilloscope can handle it. Likewise some of the stuff being done for materials and pharmacology with supercomputers (I have mentioned it in other threads but http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/02/material_science_on_petaflops_2d_to_3d/ and http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/news/casp.html - computers modelling potential interactions as opposed to "well I mixed this with this, what happens if I tweak it slightly so?" model that science worked on for most of history) has something of a tendency to generate huge volumes of data for the microseconds it models and more storage would certainly help there.

*science has always been about analysing data but this is more about the internet/commerce style properly linked tables and other things you start dealing with in proper databases.

Storing data in your skin would be a fantastic way of transferring data securely…

Would have made Johnny Mnemonic about 30 times shorter.
Edit- damn it Hanafuda....

I'm not putting that in my body. That like 100x worse of the thoughts of putting computer chips in my body.

The DNA would most likely be in cased in something, so it would look like regular technology.

Psst when you eat meat, vegetables, fungus aka stuff that is largely good to nibble on you are like eating DNA.

[hypothetically] terrorists [could] use viruses to infect peoples dna like how viruses attack windows but imagine windows being your body

Surely that would require such people to be you know... competent


Getting back on topic what I would be interested in is kicking this up a notch and using DNA for computation itself but storage is well worth it in the short term as well.

 

[KingVamp]

I'm not putting that in my body. That like 100x worse of the thoughts of putting computer chips in my body.

The DNA would most likely be in cased in something, so it would look like regular technology.

Psst when you eat meat, vegetables, fungus aka stuff that is largely good to nibble on you are like eating DNA.

Not only are they meant to be eaten,unlike a DNA Storage , they normally/hopefully not as modified.

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

I wonder what the read and write speeds for DNA storage is like?

 

[triassic911]

soooo...how do i transfer data to a friend?

Penetration.

 

[Bladexdsl]

will you have to feed the hard drive? dna is alive afterall